Wednesday, 28 August 2013

I'm off on a 2 hour river cruise so what better polish to wear than Water You Waiting For by China Glaze!

It's filled with predominately blue glitter, with a sprinkling of smaller mint green glitter in there too, all suspended in a transparent dark blue polish. The photo above and below were taken in daylight where you can really see the individual glitters...

It's chock full of glitter which honestly ended up getting on my nerves, so in the end I added thinner to make application easier. I did 2 coats, with 2 layers of topcoat as it does dry quite bumpy. Here it is indoors where the sparkle and deep blue base colour take over...

An impressive, super sparkly blue polish. The green glitter makes it extra special and I'm so happy I was able to capture it in a photo!

This is my first basic swatch blog post, if you enjoyed it let me know and I'll start taking more snaps of my collection.

Friday, 23 August 2013

After a year of 'putting it off til the next time' I've FINALLY made my nail polish collection video!

I decided to do an in depth look at my polishes, storage ideas and swatches...if a job's worth doing it's worth doing well and all that. Consequently I ended up with 2 hours of footage that's been edited down to 40 minutes, still bloody long but I guess it had to be. I talked about different brands, swatching my collection, favourites, least favourites and acrylic paints.

So settle in, get a cuppa and some snacks and prepare to be suffocated under an avalanche of polishey goodness ;P

Monday, 5 August 2013

Let's face it, shatter is SO 3 years ago and many of us have half used bottles lying around. In an effort to fall back in love with them again I started playing around with them, and created some double layered crackle/shatter designs....and it worked!

I'm a little obsessed with creating new colour combinations and can't get enough of the look. The grey/aqua/black combo is my current favourite, it's like a rock formation or camouflage.